 For culture certainly means something quite different from learning or technical skill. It implies the possession of an ideal, and the habit of critically estimating the value of things by comparison with a theoretic standard. Perfect culture should supply...  The Popular Science Monthly - Page 4641893Full view - About this book
 | 1881 - 536 pages
...Wallace's Hegel. Culture certainly means something quite different from learning or technical skill. It implies the possession of an ideal, and the habit...alike of its possibilities and of its limitations. — Prof. Huxley. Science, Literature and Art. Dr. Liborius having observed in China that the tincture... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1881 - 372 pages
...proposition. For culture certainly means something quite different from learning or technical skill. It implies the possession of an ideal, and the habit...alike of its possibilities and of its limitations. But we may agree to all this, and yet strongly dissent from the assumption that literature alone is... | |
 | C. O. Whitman - 1881 - 56 pages
...and one apparently familiar with " the best hat has been thought and said, in the literary world, " should supply a complete theory of life, based upon...alike of its possibilities and of its limitations." If we accept Prof. Huxley's definition, which supplements " the critcism of life contained in literature... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1882 - 372 pages
...proposition. For culture certainly means something quite different from learning or technical skill. It implies the possession of an ideal, and the habit...theory of life, based upon a clear knowledge alike of ita possibilities and of its limitations. ' . But we may agree to all this, and yet strongly dissent... | |
 | 1882 - 882 pages
...narrow, that literature contains the materials which suffice for the construction of such a criticism. "Perfect culture should supply a complete theory of...alike of its possibilities and of its limitations." "Nevertheless," he says, "I am the last person to question the importance of genuine literary education,... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1882 - 888 pages
...narrow, that literature contains the materials which suffice for the construction of such a criticism. "Perfect culture should supply a complete theory of...alike of its possibilities and of its limitations." "Nevertheless," he says, "I am the last person to question the importance of genuine literary education,... | |
 | James Platt - 1883 - 538 pages
...training. It is a something beyond learning or technical skill; it implies the possession of an ideal, a theory of life, based upon a clear knowledge alike of its possibilities and of its limitations ; and the habit of critically estimating the value of things by this theoretic standard. Starting in... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1886 - 354 pages
...proposition. For culture certainly means something quite different from learning or technical skill. It implies the possession of an ideal, and the habit...with a theoretic standard. Perfect culture should apply a complete theory of life, based upon a clear knowledge alike of its possibilities and of its... | |
 | Thomas Henry Huxley - 1886 - 350 pages
...culture certainly ! means something quite different from ! learning or technical skill. It implies the j possession of an ideal, and the habit of critically...with a theoretic standard. Perfect culture should apply a complete theory of life, based upon a clear knowledge alike of its possibilities and of its... | |
 | James Platt - 1889 - 332 pages
...CULTURE is a something beyond learning or technical skill ; it implies the possession of an ideal, a theory of life, based upon a clear knowledge, alike of its possibilities and of its limitations ; and the habit of critically estimating the value of things by this theoretic standard. Starting in... | |
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